Improvement in track-hails for sliding- doors



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WITNESSES.

dichiari iatea EMERY PARKER., CF -NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

letters Patent No. 107 ,5430, dated September 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACK-RAILS FOR SLIDING- DORS.

v The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the Same- To all whom Iit may concern .Bc it known that 1', EMERY PARKER, of N ew Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new' and useful improved Track-Rail for Sliding Doors; and I do hereby declare that t-he -t'ollowing specification, taken in connection with the drawing making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure l is a perspective view ot the rail as applied to the door.

Figure 2 shows the ends of the abutting sections. l

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section ofthe rail.

Figure 4 shows a brace for stitiening thc rail when secured to the oor.

Track-rails for sliding doors have heretofore been usually made with-projecting lips, through which the screws to hold the rail to the tloor 'are inserted, or, in

some instances, the holding-screws have been inserted in holes made through the rail itself, the ends of the holes being conntersunk to receive the screw-heads.

The purpose of myiniprovemeut is to provide a means for securing the rail to the floor without showing either a lip or screw-heads, and thus, in addition to the improvement in appearance, enable the carpet to be laid close up to the rail.

A may represent thcfloor upon which the track-rail is to be laid. 4

BA B are sections of rails composing the track, which may be extended in lengt-h by the addition ot any desired number of sections. v

C is abuttress-block, of metal, which is set be tweenvthe walls, within which the door slides, and may be the= end of any suitable ,track-rail which has been laid between such walls for the loo'r, provided it' is furnished with a hole, a, in its end, or otherwise, suitably constructed to receive the duivel-pin b, belonging to the first 4section ot the improved track-rail, fin' 7 Each section of the track-rail is furnished, at one end, with a dowel-pin, l), and at the other`end it is provided with a lip, c, through which a screwis tobe inserted to hold the section to the floor, and it will be bet-ter to make such lip extend below the plane of the A bottom'of the rail, so that it will require to have a mortise cut in the licor for its reception.

That end, too, of the section which is furnished with In this way it will -be seen that a track-rail of'any desired length can be laid and composed, if preferred,

of many sections, which, when laid in the licor,` will not show, in the space exposed to view in the room when thc doors are open, any side flange or screwfastening.A

What- I-"claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letterslatent, is-

The improved track-rail for sliding doors, constructed in the manner substantially as described.

` y EMERY PARKER. Witnesses:

M. J. WOODRUFF, H, E. RUSSELL, 2d. 

